Jan Yip

“It will be seen from the foregoing sketch that my life has not been a very eventful one. I have had no hair-raising adventures nor travelled in little-known parts of the world, but wherever I have been I have made interesting friends and I still retain them. Friends are like windows in a house, and what a terribly dull house it would be that had no windows! They open vistas, they show one new and lovely views of the countryside. Friends give one new ideas, new values, new interests. Thank God for friends!”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“She was about to discover that lost things often reappear when they're no longer being looked for . . . and then, much closer than expected.”
― Abi Elphinstone, Winter Magic

“Jane Welsh Carlyle says in one of her letters, "One can never be too much alive to the consideration that one's every slightest action does not end when it has acted itself but propagates itself on and on, in one shape or another, through all time and away into eternity.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“You've got to be a little bit greedy to be a good cook - I mean you've got to appreciate good food yourself - but even if I didn't like cooking very much I would enjoy cooking for Bunny.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves